Editing Marxists Internet Archive (section)

===Copyright issue on Marx/Engels collected works===
In late April 2014, the small British publishers [[Lawrence & Wishart]] (L&W) chose to revoke their permission for their English language version of the [[Marx/Engels Collected Works]] to be reprinted in part on MIA.<ref name="Howard">{{Cite news |last=Howard |first=Jennifer |date=29 April 2014 |title=Readers of Marx and Engels Decry Publisher's Assertion of Copyright |newspaper=[[Chronicle of Higher Education]] |url=http://chronicle.com/article/Readers-of-MarxEngels/146251/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201060229/http://www.chronicle.com/article/Readers-of-MarxEngels/146251/ |archive-date=2017-02-01}}</ref> In an email in late April 2014, L&W asked MIA to delete the contested material from their website by the end of April or face litigation.<ref name="Cohen">{{Cite news |last=Cohen |first=Noam |date=30 April 2014 |title=Claiming a Copyright on Marx? How Uncomradely |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/arts/claiming-a-copyright-on-marx-how-uncomradely.html?hpw&rref=books&_r=0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212131356/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/arts/claiming-a-copyright-on-marx-how-uncomradely.html?hpw&rref=books&_r=0 |archive-date=2019-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Tobar |first=Hector |date=April 29, 2014 |title=Radicals fight over a Karl Marx copyright |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-radicals-fight-over-a-karl-marx-copyright-20140429,0,303004.story#axzz30PWRhD34 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506035136/http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-radicals-fight-over-a-karl-marx-copyright-20140429,0,303004.story#axzz30PWRhD34 |archive-date=2014-05-06}}</ref> MIA chose to follow the request. An online petition was started against the L&W decision, and had the support of more than 4,500 people by the end of the month.<ref name="Cohen"/> The author of the petition, [[Ammar Aziz]], was quoted in ''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'' magazine: "You cannot privatize their writings—they are the collective property of the people they wrote for. Privatization of Marx and Engels' writings is like getting a trademark for the words 'socialism' or 'communism.'"<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pearson |first=Jordan |date=May 2, 2014 |title=Not Even Radical Communist Literature Is Immune to Copyright Battles |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/not-even-radical-communist-literature-is-immune-to-copyright-battles/ |url-status=live |magazine=Motherboard |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503202559/http://motherboard.vice.com/read/not-even-radical-communist-literature-is-immune-to-copyright-battles |archive-date=2014-05-03}}</ref>

[[Andy Blunden]], a representative of MIA, did not dispute that L&W has copyright over the material.<ref name="Howard"/> He was quoted in the Washington D.C.–based ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education|Chronicle of Higher Education]]'': "The professors and the historians will be able to write learned articles about what Marx said, but the general population are going to be left back in 1975 [the year when the publication of the Collected Works began]".<ref name="Howard"/> In response to widespread criticism, L&W issued a statement objecting to the "campaign of online abuse".<ref name="Howard"/>